Jinxed Restaurant Locations of the Decade

Is there really such a thing as a jinxed restaurant location? Some say it is just a myth. But we beg to differ. In July, Eating Our Words featured its first list of jinxed restaurant locations. We are happy to see that some of these restaurants have beaten the curse. Feast even made it into Bon Appetite magazine. Unfortunately, not everyone can be as lucky. Here's our look at some of the less than lucky spots in Houston over the last decade.

No one said having a fine-dining restaurant behind a gas station was a good idea. So far, we have only found gas station chicken and sushi to be successful. Fortunately, someone learned their lesson and tore down the restaurant for a shopping center.

Even the Grotto couldn't make it in this cursed spot. Maybe people are distracted by the Whole Foods in the same shopping center. You would think that a restaurant in the middle of a busy neighborhood across the street from an enormous church and school would make it. We are keeping our fingers crossed for Sylvia's.

It's a bad sign when some of Houston's most famous chefs, like Monica Pope and Scott Tycer, can't make this place work for a restaurant. Max and Julie's has been around since 2007, so maybe owners Laurence and Chris Paul have out-jinxed the location.

Could it be the parking, the location, or the food? We don't know, but this downtown spot at the bottom of Hogg Palace has a long line of failures behind it. Unfortunately, the make-shift sign of Pad Thai doesn't bode well for future success. Maybe a name change is in order.

If you blink, you might miss BB's Cajun Café. Stuffed in the corner of a small shopping center behind a gas station, this is not the most likely spot for a Cajun café -- or a European grill, for that matter.